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Citing “sources familiar with the situation,” the Times Union said the move is expected to be approved Sunday during an AHL board of governors meeting in Allentown, Pennsylvania. AHL officials will come together in Allentown for AHL All-Star Classic Weekend, which runs Saturday through Monday at the PPL Center – the home of the Lehigh Valley Phantoms.

The team’s relocation to Binghamton could not be confirmed by local officials Wednesday night, but would be good news for area hockey fans, who learned in September that the Ottawa Senators of the NHL were moving their AHL affiliate to Belleville, Ontario, for the 2017-2018 season.

The B-Sens have been affiliated with Ottawa since the 2002-03 season. The B-Sens won the AHL Calder Cup in 2011.

Pending approval, the Albany Devils will follow its seventh season at the 15,500-seat Times Union Center with its first at Floyd L. Maines Veterans Memorial Arena, which seats close to 4,700 for hockey as the home of the Binghamton Senators.

B-Sens executive vice president of operations Tom Mitchell said in September that AHL hockey will remain in the Floyd L. Maines Veterans Memorial Arena after this season.

“The American league is going nowhere, that’s a given,” Mitchell said Sept. 26. “More than talks; (hockey) is going to stay in Binghamton and I can’t say much more than that.”

A message left on Mitchell’s phone Wednesday night was not immediately returned.

Broome County executive Jason Garnar also did not respond to a message left on his cell phone Wednesday night.

According to the Times Union, the Albany Devils rank last out of 30 AHL teams in home attendance, with an average of 2,888 fans. The B-Sens rank 29th, with 3,436 fans per home game.

Entering Wednesday night’s AHL games, the Albany Devils stood second in the seven-team North Division with a 24-16-1-1 record and the B-Sens were fifth at 18-19-2-1. The Syracuse Crunch took a division-leading 20-12-3-5 record into Wednesday's games.